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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stranger
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
complete stranger
▪ a complete stranger
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
complete
▪ Would you leave him/her with a complete stranger?
▪ They argue with complete strangers a lot.
▪ She was worse than Doreen, telling complete strangers the entire family history.
▪ A nail-biting finish, but finally won by Moira Creek at her first attempt and a complete stranger to Pooh culture.
▪ She'd just walked in to the nearest doorway and spilled the whole thing to a complete stranger.
▪ He was a complete stranger, of no importance to her whatever.
▪ Four Buddhist priests prayed for the royal couple during their visit but they left still looking like complete strangers.
▪ Surely Edward can't have told complete strangers we're on our honeymoon?
perfect
▪ Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger.
▪ Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers, dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
▪ A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger.
▪ Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
▪ They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
▪ I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
▪ She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
total
▪ Have you gone mad, talking of marrying a total stranger - and a foreigner - after five minutes?
▪ When they were admitted, they not only received medical attention, but also love, from total strangers.
▪ Ten days in an alien village with a total stranger and her totally strange family.
▪ The approach was to build one committed team from a group of total strangers.
▪ Honest, to a total stranger he said all that!
▪ To get off a train with a total stranger ... I really can not ... well, words fail me.
▪ He was like a total stranger.
virtual
▪ She'd never been away from home before and her new husband and in-laws were virtual strangers.
▪ He was a virtual stranger to others living in Evesham Court and police still haven't confirmed his identity.
▪ How dared this man, a virtual stranger, stir up these doubts in so private an area of her life?
■ VERB
feel
▪ Farm workers are apt to complain that they now feel like strangers in their own village.
▪ At times, I begin to feel like a stranger in my own country.
▪ Jack felt like a stranger in his own home.
▪ I have told him many stories, but during the day I often feel we are strangers.
▪ After only a couple of days, comprising mainly insults and bickering, she hadn't felt as if they were strangers.
▪ But love was what he felt for the stranger who'd thrust herself upon him.
▪ He made her feel excluded, a stranger, an intruder into his private world.
▪ One never feels like a stranger or some visiting curiosity.
let
▪ She would not let this stranger get near her.
▪ Voice over Once again pensioners are advised not to keep large sums of money at home and not to let in strangers.
▪ She had stubbornly defied both her solicitor and Glyn and here she was letting a complete stranger dictate terms to her.
meet
▪ The first meeting between these strangers could easily produce a shock that reverberated throughout the marriage.
▪ Mama never met a stranger in her life, although most people thought she was dignified.
talk
▪ S Teach them the dangers of talking to strangers and not to accept sweets or gifts.
▪ Red learned never to stray from the path or talk to strangers again.
▪ Hatred for the girl who had dared to talk to strangers, who had ruined his plan to get rid of Sikes.
▪ She had trained them to hold hands, walk straight to school and not to talk to strangers.
▪ When I was little, my mom told me not to talk to strangers.
▪ Female speaker Don't talk to strangers.
▪ I was talking to a stranger.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
perfect stranger/fool/angel etc
▪ A year before he had, but that year had changed him, eliminated the sentiment and made him a perfect stranger.
▪ Again he was a person, no longer a perfect stranger.
▪ Asked to stand guard over good or treasure, they would good-naturedly hand everything over to a perfect stranger.
▪ I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger.
▪ She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
▪ Some oranges in a commune, like perfect strangers, dwell upon their own navels, untransformed.
▪ They put money on the table, too, perfect strangers expressing unmistakable monetary interest in the Tonelli Nation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After assuming office, he was reluctant to use the existing speech writers because they were strangers to him.
▪ Carly, don't ever take candy from strangers.
▪ Many of the farming families have lived here for hundreds of years, and tend to treat everyone else as strangers.
▪ The boy was a complete stranger to me.
▪ The people I stayed with were very kind, so I didn't feel like a stranger for long.
▪ The room was full of strangers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Begin by watching yourself for half an hour each day as if you are a stranger.
▪ Instead we might have been strangers.
▪ People nudged one another and nodded at this tall stranger, conspicuous in his limp white suit and dark shirt.
▪ Student volunteers are relying on home hospitality from strangers, supporters who are supplying free rooms for the summer.
▪ The stranger began a series of intonations, breathing noisily.
▪ Violence in the home is as much a crime as violence from a stranger, so do not put up with it.
▪ With no knowledge of the language or people, he is truly a stranger in a strange land.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stranger

Strange \Strange\, a. [Compar. Stranger; superl. Strangest.] [OE. estrange, F. ['e]trange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, Extraneous.]

  1. Belonging to another country; foreign. ``To seek strange strands.''
    --Chaucer.

    One of the strange queen's lords.
    --Shak.

    I do not contemn the knowledge of strange and divers tongues.
    --Ascham.

  2. Of or pertaining to others; not one's own; not pertaining to one's self; not domestic.

    So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.
    --Sir J. Davies.

  3. Not before known, heard, or seen; new.

    Here is the hand and seal of the duke; you know the character, I doubt not; and the signet is not strange to you.
    --Shak.

  4. Not according to the common way; novel; odd; unusual; irregular; extraordinary; unnatural; queer. ``He is sick of a strange fever.''
    --Shak.

    Sated at length, erelong I might perceive Strange alteration in me.
    --Milton.

  5. Reserved; distant in deportment.
    --Shak.

    She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee.
    --Hawthorne.

  6. Backward; slow. [Obs.]

    Who, loving the effect, would not be strange In favoring the cause.
    --Beau. & Fl.

  7. Not familiar; unaccustomed; inexperienced. In thy fortunes am unlearned and strange. --Shak. Note: Strange is often used as an exclamation. Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below. --Waller. Strange sail (Naut.), an unknown vessel. Strange woman (Script.), a harlot. --Prov. v. 3. To make it strange.

    1. To assume ignorance, suspicion, or alarm, concerning it.
      --Shak.

    2. To make it a matter of difficulty. [Obs.] --Chaucer. To make strange, To make one's self strange.

      1. To profess ignorance or astonishment.

      2. To assume the character of a stranger.
        --Gen. xlii. 7.

        Syn: Foreign; new; outlandish; wonderful; astonishing; marvelous; unusual; odd; uncommon; irregular; queer; eccentric.

Stranger

Stranger \Stran"ger\, n. [OF. estrangier, F. ['e]tranger. See Strange.]

  1. One who is strange, foreign, or unknown. Specifically:

    1. One who comes from a foreign land; a foreigner.

      I am a most poor woman and a stranger, Born out of your dominions.
      --Shak.

    2. One whose home is at a distance from the place where he is, but in the same country.

    3. One who is unknown or unacquainted; as, the gentleman is a stranger to me; hence, one not admitted to communication, fellowship, or acquaintance.

      Melons on beds of ice are taught to bear, And strangers to the sun yet ripen here.
      --Granville.

      My child is yet a stranger in the world.
      --Shak.

      I was no stranger to the original.
      --Dryden.

  2. One not belonging to the family or household; a guest; a visitor.

    To honor and receive Our heavenly stranger.
    --Milton.

  3. (Law) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy.

Stranger

Stranger \Stran"ger\, v. t. To estrange; to alienate. [Obs.]
--Shak.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stranger

late 14c., "unknown person, foreigner," from strange + -er (1) or else from Old French estrangier "foreigner" (Modern French étranger), from estrange. Latin used the adjective extraneus as a noun to mean "stranger." The English noun never picked up the secondary sense of the adjective. As a form of address to an unknown person, it is recorded from 1817, American English rural colloquial. Meaning "one who has stopped visiting" is recorded from 1520s.

Wiktionary
stranger

  1. (en-comparative of: strange) n. 1 A person whom one does not know; a person who is neither a friend nor an acquaintance. 2 An outsider or foreigner. 3 A newcomer. v

  2. (context obsolete transitive English) To estrange; to alienate.

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WordNet
stranger

n. anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: alien, unknown]

Wikipedia
Stranger (comics)

The Stranger is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Stranger (Electric Light Orchestra song)

"Stranger" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

This song first appeared on the band's 11th studio album, Secret Messages. Stranger also was the third single from the LP.

The small quiet opening is one of the many messages that takes place in this album. A high pitched backmasked voice is heard during the opening, played in reverse the voice is actually saying "You're playing me backwards."

"Recorded this in Holland, where I was looking through the eyes of a stranger." Jeff Lynne (2001 - Secret Messages Remaster)

Stranger (Hilary Duff song)

"Stranger" is a song recorded by American singer Hilary Duff for her fourth studio album, Dignity (2007). It was written by Duff and Kara DioGuardi with the song's producers Vada Nobles, Derrick Haruin, and Julius "Logic" Diaz.

Stranger (Song)
Stranger (magazine)

Stranger was a bi-monthly creative lifestyle magazine based in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom that focused on the alternative, creative, non-metrocentric side of British culture. Since its first local issue on October 2004, the magazine has grown to become distributed worldwide and featured articles relating to the environment, current affairs, music, fashion, and surf and skate culture. It now appears to be defunct.

Stranger (Valient Thorr album)

Stranger is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Valient Thorr, released in 2010.

Stranger (The Rasmus song)

"Stranger" is a song by Finnish alternative rock band The Rasmus. The song was released as the second single from their eighth studio album The Rasmus. A music video for the single, filmed in Singapore, was released on 6 June 2012.

Stranger (Gen Hoshino album)

Stranger is the third studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter and Sakerock frontman Gen Hoshino. It was released on 1 May 2013 in Japan on Speedstar Records.

It was the first release since Hoshino's hiatus after he suffered subarachnoid hemorrhage at the end of 2012. As of May 2013, it is ranked 2nd on the Oricon music charts. All three singles promoting the album reached the top 10 — "Film" placed at #4, "Yume no Soto e" at #8 and "Shiranai" at #5.

Stranger (2015 film)

Stranger (, translit. Zhat) is a 2015 Kazakhstani drama film written and directed by Ermek Tursunov. The film was selected as the Kazakhstani entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Usage examples of "stranger".

Thus attended, the hapless mourner entered the place, and, according to the laudable hospitality of England, which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God, this amiable creature, emaciated and enfeebled as she was, must have stood in a common passage during the whole service, had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman, who, struck with her beauty and dignified air, and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance, opened the pew in which she sat, and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.

I did not lose my being, as my father for a while did, my senses were however so overpowered with affright and surprize, that I am a stranger to what passed during some minutes, and indeed till my father had again recovered from his swoon, and I found myself in his arms, both tenderly embracing each other, while the tears trickled a-pace down the cheeks of each of us.

A palace was allotted for his reception, and a niece of the emperor was given in marriage to the valiant stranger, who was immediately created great duke or admiral of Romania.

And suddenly and most wonderfully the door of the room upstairs opened of its own accord, and as they looked up in amazement, they saw descending the stairs the muffled figure of the stranger staring more blackly and blankly than ever with those unreasonably large blue glass eyes of his.

Pierre and Jaqueline being about to return to their daily labour, found their kindness amply rewarded by the generosity of the stranger, who gave them money enough, they said, to serve them for six months.

When the herd draws itself together in arms against the stranger it is a fall for those rare free spirits who love the whole world, but it raises the many who weakly vegetate in anarchistic egotism, and lifts them to that higher stage of organised selfishness.

Stranger and far more awkward than this is the case mentioned in an ancient collection, where the subject of the antipathy fainted at the sight of any object of a red color.

Privately and in a very still way, she was occupying herself with the problem of the young stranger, the subject of some delusion, or disease, or obliquity of unknown nature, to which the vague name of antipathy had been attached.

The strangers of the West had violated the city, and bestowed the sceptre, of Constantine: their Imperial clients soon became as unpopular as themselves: the well-known vices of Isaac were rendered still more contemptible by his infirmities, and the young Alexius was hated as an apostate, who had renounced the manners and religion of his country.

Yet even in their fallen state, the Jews, still asserting their lofty and exclusive privileges, shunned, instead of courting, the society of strangers.

I have seen the goats on Mount Pentelicus scatter at the approach of a stranger, climb to the sharp points of projecting rocks, and attitudinize in the most self-conscious manner, striking at once those picturesque postures against the sky with which Oriental pictures have made us and them familiar.

The stranger was staring at him, and there was a look in his eyes that made Barnacle turn over inside.

He stood, a quaint, impassive little figure, more interested apparently in de Batz, who was a stranger to him, than in the three others whom he knew.

Accordingly, Oliva, hearing the dogs bark, looked out, and, seeing Beausire returning with two strangers, did not come to meet him as usual.

A fleeing stranger, Bern was certain, would be happily seized to be questioned at leisure.